The Penn's Grove record., 1887-02-26
NEWS IN BRIEF.

loo, 900 cats.
Chicago r%ejoices in the possession
Of a cross-eyed cat.
Cigarette paper is said to be made
In lib mills in Spain.
The frost kings grip OF the D.la-
ware has been loosened.
There is as much wind in European
war talk as In any other kind.
India rubber was brought to Europe
from South America in 1870.
"A number Of families have lately
arrived from the Eastern States and
taken up their residence in Olympia,
w. L.
Its the convictions and not the
trials of life that worry a certain element
of the community.
William Gea Of Edinburgh, first
practiced the art Of printing from
stereotyped plates.
"A vein of marble, one hundred feet
wide, has been discovered on the road
from Bodie to Carson, NeY.
"A colony of one hundred Catholic
families from Canada, is about to be
established in Snohomish county, W.T..
-When Congress wants to learn
something about shIp-building, it has
the good sense to listen to Philadel-
phlans.
The streets and squares of Berlin
contain upwards of forty-five thousand
trees, and the number is constantly In
creaslng.
The market for paper stock during
the year 1886 has been the most unsat.
~isfactory for many years to dealers and
collectors.
There is a "whistling welln on a
farm in Clare county, Mich. 1t is 100
feet deep and whistles loudest just be-
fore a storm.
The whole French infantry will be
provided with new rifles next spring.
The cost of the change will amount to
500. 900, 00O.
! "A check for one cent was drawn in
New York by the government in favor
Of an Importer who had paid excess of
1uty to that extent.
"A wall of brown stone, topped with
/ bronze fence, keeps stray kline off the
e. 500, 900 premises of James g. Flood,
on Mob Hill, Frisco.
During the past three years, eigh-
Jeen switch girls in a telephone office in
Connecticut town have been married
TO subscribers on the line.
Wild dogs are harassing farmers
and residents of the towns of Hyde Park
and Pleasant Valley, N. Y, aud doing
much damage to live stock.
"A boat containing fourteen persons
has been successfully worked on the
Seine with artificial wings acting on the
air and propelled by a rotating wheel.
The individual boycotter has been
declared a violator of law by the courts.
Hence, those who send him out on his
lawless errand are a criminal combina-
ton.
There are grave fears in Maine that
tuberculosis from an infected herd Of
cattle of the State College has been
spread through the eastern part of the
State.
There are SO coal mines tributary
to the Great Kanawha river, in West
Virginia, with a present annual capa-
city of 5000, 900 tons, and the number
is increasing.
Thirteen dollars is the low rate for
emigrant tickets to Liverpool, Glasgow,
Belfast or Londonderry, or from any
port or railway station in Ireland to
New York.
The barometer, the Berlin Meteor
illogical Society is informed. was lower
in Scotland early IN January than it
had been known to sink, except on four
occasions. in 100 years.
The United States has planted a
great many loose capitalists in Canada
during the last few years. One would
almost believe that Canada does not
feel grateful for the honor.
The Hammonton On. j., Fruit
Growers Union reports that last year
there We're shipped from that point 129
tons of grapes, 2030 barrels of pears and
l,Sl7 1903 quarts of berries.
Birds of prey fly so swiftly and for
such a length of time that a falcon once
lost in the forest of Fontainebleau, in
the centre of France, was found the
following day at Malta, more than a
thousand miles distant.
I'm these days of invention some one
should be able to lnvs1t Heating and
Lighting apparatus for moving cars by
means of Electricity. Wrecking is bad
enough, but wrecked and roasted IS
worse than bad.
1t is stated that the first temper.
ance society in Russia was established
by a Swedish missionary. AT present
there is a temperance hall In ST. Peters.
burg where nightly gospel temperance
meetings are held.
"A shabby house in jackson, Ten.
nessee, was lately found embellished
with land grants belonging to one of the
volumes of the Land Office for West
Tennessee and representing real estate
worth now over s., 000, 900. The papers
have been missing since the wal.